Total Archery: Inside the Archer

by KiSik Lee, Tyler Benner, Park Kyung-Mo (Foreword)

KiSik Lee has again revolutionized the archery world with his second installment of the Total Archery series. Inside the Archer provides a unique perspective into the highly detailed world of Olympic archery through 28 carefully written chapters. Each chapter focuses on a new technique element, beautifully laid out with large, full-color photos and diagrams that supplement the words of the text in graphical form.


Inside the Archer is written as a collaboration between the teacher, Lee, and the student, Benner. The co-authorship creates an intriguing blend of impacting lessons from Lee and curious inquisitiveness from Benner. Never before has archery taken on such a lively form as Lee and Benner speak about archery with such passion and enthusiasm it pours out of the pages.



Inside the Archer speaks with a warmth that will remind any archer, past or present, why he loves this age old sport.




Reviews:


"If you are either an elite Olympic-style archer or elite Olympic-style coache or one of those desiring to become such, here is my recommendation: Absolutely Must Read Again and Again."
~ Steve Ruis Archery Focus Magazine - July '09 issue



"Inside the Archer provides more information than any of us knew existed about the most minute details of our beloved sport."


"If there was ever any doubt regarding any detail of [Coach Lees teachings], the answer must surely be in the pages of Inside the Archer. Never before has there been such a comprehensively detailed guide to shooting your best. And as the archer begins to read and absorb some of the ideas, the idea of the shot cycle comes together in a surprisingly simple, graceful way."
~ Lindsey Carmichael 2008 Paralympic Bronze Medalist



"Inside the Archer has a better layout and description of the shot cycle than any archery book I have have ever seen."
~ Alexander Meyer USA Jr Dream Team Coach

Genres: Nonfiction, Sports

253 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Anton · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a pretty good explanation for NTS, however the language is unreasonably complicated and sometimes ambiguous. NTS overall imho over complicated and can be fully adopted only by a very few archers under a supervision of a coach.

[Jerry Luan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book may help professionals or very serious archers. However, there are two significant drawbacks.

1. For anyone wants to teach herself archery, the learning curve is too steep – if possible to progress at all. There are very detailed description about the movements. They are hard to understand; they can't be applied one by one to your shooting. You have to master all before applying them.

2. The bigger problem, in my humble opinion, is that this training method turns a living being into a shooting machine – precise but dead. It's possible that's the way for Olympic archer training; but it's not the archer I enjoyed.

[Paul A · Rating 5 out of 5]

In "Total Archery: Inside the Archer," Lee breaks down every aspect of Olympic archery technique with concise and clear instruction, accompanied by extremely informative photographs. The book contains 28 chapters covering topics such as stance, string alignment, and more. The content is well laid out, with a short overview of each chapter appearing at the end to drive home the chapter's key points. It's fascinating to see how many techniques and concepts in Olympic archery also appear in older forms of archery and Lee does a fantastic job of explaining ideas that are usually very difficult to explain. Will definitely be referring back to this in the future.

[Rick Waugh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m a newbie archer, so some might argue that this book is over the top for me. I’d disagree. The ‘secret’ archery is to create a repeatable process, a very exact repeatable process. This covers that process, from the moment the arrow nocks to the follow through after the release. Is it a lot? Yes, but not a bad idea to be instilled with good habits from the start. It’s well written, with excellent summaries at the end of each chapter. I’ll be working through applying this for some months, but having read it, I have a working process to start with.

[Marius-Cristian Sava · Rating 5 out of 5]

A perfect book about the perfect method for the perfect archer.

[Hannah Toups · Rating 5 out of 5]

if you want to perfect your archery game, this is the resource. Highly accessible without being too technical and the perfect co.panion for any Archer at any skill level.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

re-reading 7/8/16-